What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.

You can be a punk library or a cop library; you can care about the people or the stuff. Choose the people. 📚

And just like that, No New Wars America First MAGA is for bombing everyone and regime change to enrich oligarchs.

Please read. This was also my “retirement party,” celebrating the involuntary loss of my tenured professorship after 25 years of service to my public university.

Live Updates: Suspect in Brown University Shooting Is Found Dead in New Hampshire www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...

38% of Americans get their “news” from Fox. Whatever we all witnessed last night is muted by the hammering Fox does to boost his lies and manufacture his credibility. It seems asinine when you think critically, but if you’re just consuming, it’s deadly effective.

When the FBI realized they had the wrong guy in the Brown University shooting, I hope they were looking at Kash Patel.

In October, we learned that a quarter of U.S. FBI agents had been reassigned from investigations and security work to immigration enforcement. Meanwhile I wait- and wait- for them to catch the gunman that shot 10 of my kid’s classmates. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... #kashPatel #Brown

My child is a student at Brown. This has been and continues to be harrowing. I don’t have hope that we can stop mass shootings given the violence ingrained in our country’s history and culture. But we know we could reduce them with policy change that we have long lacked the political will to enact.

Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws. n.pr/48UTa7g

Active shooter at Brown University. Shelter in place/hide/escape. Be safe!

An interview at @insidehighered.com with my now-former supervisor and always-forever friend @robinderosa.net about her job elimination, the situation at our school, and the sad state of higher ed generally: www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

THIS is what you need to read to start your day. @robinderosa.net is my hero. Two of the three Learning & Teaching Collaborative staff I work with at Keene State College (also NH) were retrenched this semester. Support for developing good teaching is disappearing. I am heart broken.

New study: AI chatbots systematically violate mental health ethics standards www.brown.edu/news/2025-10...

As a teenager, I co-taught a course at a theater camp with John Berman. The course was in “Circus Arts.” I bet that training is coming in real handy for him now. So proud to see him in action. 💕

The Enrollment Cliff is a Miff

It's free shipping sitewide on Bookshop dot org today! Support independent bookstores! Here's a referral code for an additional 20% off from me. I just bought a couple of new reads (Heartwood, and Wild Dark Shore-- they both look great!). #BlackFriday fbuy.io/c31f4b14-725...

Oxford Handbook to the End of Academia

A stunning recommendation from epidemiologist and past CDC-employee and champion, Katelyn Jetelina: "At this time, I suggest the general public avoid the CDC website." yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/cdc-false-...

Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days

How things are going in higher ed in New Hampshire, the state that funds education the least...

An update on the loss of my tenured faculty job at a public regional university. There is no much I regret already about writing this. So much I wish were different. robinderosa.net/higher-ed/in... #HigherEd

www.wsj.com/opinion/mont... Another one of my colleagues weighs in on the “restructuring” of our home college. This time in the Wall Street Journal. It’s paywalled, so screenshots to follow.

Underfunding public higher education may not affect the kids of state legislators, who go to private colleges, but it irrevocably reduces the options for most students in the state, who rely on their regional institutions. Read this, by @robinderosa.net robinderosa.net/higher-ed/i-...

"This represents saving higher education, saving public research and the standing up of faculty, staff and students," — Veena Dubal, AAUP General Counsel & law professor at the University of California, Irvine. #DefendHigherEd

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

This is actually good spin, or would have been. But the fact that the Democratic cave happened without even a coordinated, agreed-upon message like this indicates the depth of the leadership void.

The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon

Similar horror story here. We have a major surgery in our family coming up and have to decide whether to be financially devastated now or later.

I wanted ChatGPT to help me. So why did it advise me how to kill myself? bbc.com/news/article...

@hassan.senate.gov please stand strong and don’t cave. If we lose the ACA subsidies we will never get them back. As a constituent from Campton NH, I urge you to stand up and fight.

Keep tagging them and commenting on their posts, it is having an impact!!!! And thank @slotkin.senate.gov !!!! remember honey catches more flies than vinegar

Schumer (NY) 202 224-6542 Booker (NJ) 202 224-3224 King (ME) 202 224-5344 Hassan (NH) 202 224-3324 Durbin (IL) 202 224-2152 Ossoff (GA) 202 224-3521 Shaheen (NH) 202 224-2841 Gillibrand (NY) 202 224-4451 Masto (NV) 202 224-3542 Warner (VA) 202 224-2023

On the list: Logan Not on the list: Manchester #FlyMHT

We could have just had free public college but sure yeah let’s let a select few control how and what we learn what could possibly go wrong

Never EVER click on ads on Facebook. Even if they appear legit, you can almost guarantee they aren't. Facebook is like Mos Eisley spaceport: "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy."

hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue. we’ll all subscribe en masse

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

Some people waited in line up for 14 hours to receive a food box from a church giveaway. 500 people volunteered to help and they still ran out of food. Remember for every one person a food bank feeds, SNAP feeds 9. By turning off food assistance the regime is starving Americans.

"This work is not easy, it is risky, and there’s no guarantee that those who do it will see its benefits. But it is essential." I am grateful for those in #HigherEd who stand alongside me. In the work. And now, when the work is trying to leave me behind. catherinecronin.net/reflecting/p...

Trump’s DEI Crackdown Closes 120 TRIO Programs www.insidehighered.com/news/admissi... #HigherEd

This is the best thing I've read about #OpenAccess in years. It's a far-ranging journey into so much of what is wrong and could be better in academia and our world. Plus Hothead Paisan. Seriously, read it this weekend. matthewcheney.net/blog/into-th... #OA #OER #HigherEd #libraries #OpenAccessWeek

Happy #OpenAccessWeek — here's a scattering of thoughts on openness, access, regeneration, mutual aid, academic publishing, commons, fascism, and other fun topics: matthewcheney.net/blog/into-th...

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wow, which common vaccine was it?

built on theft and at massive environmental cost and most importantly, numerous studies keep demonstrating that genAI tools often work a little better than by chance. how is it that we can’t expunge these slop machines out of our institutions and communities www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...